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- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 hour ago:
This has to be my favorite thing about Jeff Geerling vs other YouTube channels, he’ll make an accompanying blog post to go with each of his main channel videos that is effectively an annotated text version of the video with appropriately embedded images and links.
- Comment on 'Fortnite' Lobbies Can Now Have Up to 92% Bots - Players Are Furious Over Supposed OG Season 3 Update 4 days ago:
OP’s post is about fortnite, the top commenter of this comment chain added on a link about Twitter. Both are about a supposedly popular thing being overwhelmingly just full of bots. What’s not to get?
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
I understood their point. My point is that it was a one line throwaway gag on The Simpsons. Not necessarily a commentary on real world police hiring practices so much as a joke about both the police in that show and Homer.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
Considering how dumb the police chief is on that show, I think it was an intentional joke
- Comment on The Game, is just Roko's Basilisk for kids. 1 week ago:
Didn’t work on me. You can’t play a game you never consented to
- Comment on “Treat Online Abuse Like Spam”: New Report Urges Social Media Platforms to Fight Online Abuse with Tools Users Can Control 1 week ago:
Next-dooris and absolute black hole social media site, it absorbs the worst of humanity so we don’t have to see them anywhere else.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 week ago:
And also like, used at all.
- Comment on Why Japan's animation industry has embraced AI 1 week ago:
They tried. They really, really tried.
- Comment on A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion 1 week ago:
Furthermore,
Carthage must be destroyedthese people suck - Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 2 weeks ago:
We have them in written language, though?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s phenomenal, IMO. It cuts back and forth between action scenes and a philosophical dialogue between a human and a superintelligent AI he created
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The Terminator anime had a totally unrelated leader for the resistance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
100%. It’s absurdly bad faith argumentation, to the point of redefining words.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What’s your definition of “overcame”, then? Do you believe that anything short of an absolutely permanent solution is failing to overcome?
At what timescale exactly does it become overcome? If it comes back after being wiped out for 10,000 years, did we “fail to overcome” it? Or did it just come back?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is untrue. It just feels true right now.
There have been many many times, places, and societies in human history that do not resemble feudalism whatsoever.
- Comment on Funny how we see the world in landscape, but live it mostly in portrait. 3 weeks ago:
Simplicity, is the short answer. Euclidean shapes are easy to conceptualize and reproduce, and rectangles are among the simplest of them
- Comment on It's easier to inform language with language than with experience. 3 weeks ago:
So, you’re interested in entropy, as it applies to information?
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 3 weeks ago:
It was just. So. Gooey
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, classic
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 3 weeks ago:
For sure it counts
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 3 weeks ago:
Which I’m pretty sure at at least one point someone mentions is thousand island dressing.
Though I think in some episodes they just say it has ketchup and mustard, so, y’know.
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, for sure. We also had Pizza Hut back when it was a sit down place with a good deal on the all you can eat lunch buffet.
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- Comment on Thank you, autocollections plugin 4 weeks ago:
A collection on somebody’s Jellyfin server.
- Comment on getting 522 error Cloudflaired + Jellyfin + fail2ban 4 weeks ago:
I run caddy to handle https certs. Works great and it’s incredibly easy to setup
- Comment on All form is interpretation. 4 weeks ago:
All perception is interpretation. The form exists regardless.
- Comment on Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze? 4 weeks ago:
One of the biggest, most famous corn maze attractions is called The Amazing Maize Maze
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 4 weeks ago:
Samsung Messages supports RCS, for instance
- Comment on Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates 4 weeks ago:
Low/no patent issues, much simpler complexity
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 4 weeks ago:
Other Android apps do support RCS. Google doesn’t allow other apps to implement the end to end encryption, however.